Idris
Davies was a miner, teacher and poet who T.S. Eliot thought captured
the atmosphere of the 1926 General Strike better than anyone else. His
work received a welcome second look when Pete Seeger used a part of one
of his poems as a lyric for the 1965 folk song "Bells of Rhymney". The Pop group The Birds turned it into a major hit.

The poem is a monologue I wrote to accompany my version of the song that includes some of his actual words.

San Anselmo Reprise

Two
expatriates, at one time living near each other in Southern England,
then Northern California, meet from time to time to recollect, make
music, look forward, exchange dreams, bandage old and new wounds, and
seamlessly resume a friendship spanning over 40 years. There are always
major changes, but, at heart, the important things remain unchanged.
William Blake understood this.